RoomSync ٤+

Swiping through roommates is kind of fun but the app categorizes some matches as “good” when there are obvious dealbreakers like different preferred roommate arrangements and significant class or age differences. Beyond that, you can’t chat with anybody after your matching date, which means you need to take an initiative in exchanging socials off-app if you want to keep talking. I guess what I’m trying to say is that there’s great potential but it is just disappointing when looking deeper into it.

Ok, so I don’t know if it’s me, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to select same gender/gender neutral housing, which is a problem. The app might tell you 100% match, but in their profile it says they, who are a different gender than you, wish for same gender housing. Like... that’s kind of a big deal, and a massive contributor to what someone wants when they’re trying to find a roommate. Also... c’mon... who was asking for what is essentially tinder for finding roommates? Look, I get what they were trying to do, but at this point the app isn’t there yet. Maybe at some point it will, maybe this is the way everyone will be finding roommates in a few years, but at the moment it feels like a poor solution for a problem that may not need fixing.

This is would be great if it wasn’t glitchy and problematic. I found a great set of roommates and matched with them. A few weeks later, I randomly logged onto the app to see that somehow, I was unmatched from my roommates, and someone else had taken my spot, leaving me to find new roommates ASAP. Now this may seem like it was my fault, but in order to leave the current matches, the person has to physically choose to leave, which I did not, I was happy with my matches. I believe the app was so glitchy that it took me out and put someone else in there instead. Really disappointing. Thank you RoomSync for the unnecessary anxiety.